Mathematician:Eduard Čech

Mathematician

Czech mathematician whose research interests included projective differential geometry and topology.

Best known for the Stone-Čech Compactification Theory, with Marshall Harvey Stone.

Nationality

Czech

History

• Born: 29 June 1893 in Stracov, Bohemia (now Czech Republic)
• Died: 15 March 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic)

Theorems and Definitions

• Stone-Čech Compactification Theory (with Marshall Harvey Stone)
• Čech Cohomology

Results named for Eduard Čech can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Eduard Čech can be found here.

Publications

• 1937: On Bicompact Spaces (Ann. Math. Vol. 38, no. 4: pp. 823 – 844)  www.jstor.org/stable/1968839

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Eduard Čech": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive